2014 UEFA European Under-17 Championship

2014 UEFA European Under-17 Championship
The 2014 UEFA European Under-17 Championship was the 13th edition of the UEFA European Under-17 Championship, an annual football competition between men's under-17 national teams organised by UEFA. The final tournament was hosted for the first time in Malta, from 9 to 21 May 2014, after their bid was selected by the UEFA Executive Committee on 20 March 2012 in Istanbul, Turkey.
Fifty-three teams participated in a two-round qualification stage, taking place between September 2013 and March 2014, to determine the seven teams joining the hosts. Players born after 1 January 1997 were eligible to participate in this competition. This edition marked the first appearance of a national team from Gibraltar,
and was the first UEFA competition allowing referees to use a vanishing spray when setting free kicks. Live broadcast was provided by Eurosport 2 and Eurosport International.
England beat the Netherlands in the final on penalties to secure their second European under-17 title, four years after their first, and the second to be won by coach John Peacock. The 2013 champions, Russia, failed to qualify for the final tournament.
Qualification
Qualification for the final tournament of the 2014 UEFA European Under-17 Championship consisted of two rounds: a qualifying round and an elite round. In the qualifying round, 53 national teams competed in 13 groups of four teams, with each group winner and runner-up, plus the best third-placed team, advancing to the elite round. There, the 27 first-round qualifiers plus Germany, who was given a bye, were distributed in seven groups of four teams. The winner of each group qualified for the final tournament.
Qualified teams
1 Only counted appearances for under-17 era (bold indicates champion for that year, while italic indicates hosts)
Final draw
The draw for the group stage of the final tournament was held on 9 April 2014 at Saint James Cavalier in Valletta. It was conducted by UEFA's Youth and Amateur Football Committee chairman Jim Boyce, along with Fr. Hilary Tagliaferro and former Maltese international David Carabott. The host team, Malta, was automatically assigned as team one in group A, while the remaining teams were drawn successively in the order B1, A2, B2, A3, B3, A4 and B4.
Venues
Squads
Match officials
Referees
Nikola Dabanović (Montenegro)
Alexander Harkam (Austria)
Andreas Ekberg (Sweden)
Aleksandrs Anufrijevs (Latvia)
Jonathan Lardot (Belgium)
Aliyar Aghayev (Azerbaijan)
Assistant referees
István Albert (Hungary)
Audrius Jagintavičius (Lithuania)
Dag-Roger Nebben (Norway)
Mesrop Ghazaryan (Armenia)
David Elias Biton (Israel)
Oleksandr Korniyko (Ukraine)
Jure Praprotnik (Slovenia)
David Chigogidze (Georgia)
Fourth officials
Clayton Pisani (Malta)
Alan Mario Sant (Malta)
Group stage
Fixtures and match schedule were confirmed by UEFA on 15 April 2014.
Tie-breaking
If two or more teams were equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following tie-breaking criteria were applied:
Higher number of points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
Superior goal difference resulting from the matches played between the teams in question;
Higher number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
If, after having applied criteria 1 to 3, teams still have an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 3 are reapplied exclusively to the matches between the teams in question to determine their final rankings. If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria 4 to 7 apply.
If only two teams are tied (according to criteria 1–7) after having met in the last match of the group stage, their ranking is determined by a penalty shoot-out.
All times are in Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).
Group A
Group B
Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, penalty shoot-out is used to decide the winner if necessary (no extra time is played).
Bracket
Semi-finals
Final
Team of the Tournament
Goalkeepers
Yanick van Osch
Gregor Kobel
Defenders
Jonjoe Kenny
Tafari Moore
Joe Gomez
Calvin Verdonk
Ferro
Lukas Boeder
Midfielders
Ryan Ledson
Aidan Nesbitt
Jari Schuurman
Rúben Neves
Renato Sanches
Dimitri Oberlin
Forwards
Steven Bergwijn
Enes Ünal
Patrick Roberts
Alexandre Silva
Goalscorers
4 goals
Dominic Solanke
Jari Schuurman
3 goals
Patrick Roberts
Calvin Verdonk
Steven Bergwijn
Fatih Aktay
2 goals
Adam Armstrong
Abdelhak Nouri
Dani van der Moot
Luís Mata
Enes Ünal
1 goal
Jonjoe Kenny
Benjamin Henrichs
Aidan Friggieri
Joseph Mbong
Bilal Ould-Chikh
Segun Owobowale
Pedro Rodrigues
Renato Sanches
Ryan Hardie
Jake Sheppard
Craig Wighton
Scott Wright
Boris Babic
Dimitri Oberlin
Hayrullah Alici
References
External links
Official tournament site at UEFA
Official tournament site at Malta Football Association
Uefa
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